Re: bridles
Posted: 2014/06/06 16:01:24 UTC
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1563
Platform Launching (PL) Draft suggestions needed
- Moderators are - by definition - SCUM. They're insidious enemies of the First Amendment freedoms that all those guys who got slaughtered on Omaha Beach were supposed to have been giving their lives for and absolute murder on minority positions.
- Yeah. I've been permanently banned from seven separate hang gliding forums (counting CHGA from which I got a permanent three month suspension near the end of 2008) and one (the) paragliding forum - not to mention permanent banning from hang gliding itself - for winning battles against you goddam pigfuckers on this issue. Whenever you go into Bible Belt country saying Creationists are totally full of shit you're not gonna make a lot of friends.
- It's a bent pin piece of shit that wasn't designed for towing anything.
- The actuator is located within easy reach on an aircraft which requires two hands to fly.
- All of the above.
And it's a real safe bet that you've never once in your entire flying career flown with an ACTUAL release on your glider so you should probably shut the fuck up on that issue.
How 'bout right after launch at Dry Canyon with a hundred and fifty feet of air under you and your sidewire fails?
Now cite an incident in which engines were lost on takeoff, a sidewire blew at 150 feet, or a towline blew in which the issue couldn't be traced back to an incompetent and/or negligent douchebag.
- Maybe it's a good idea to design aircraft such that stuff doesn't come loose and go through the prop.
- Trike was outta commission but there was never the least problem with the glider. So what's your fuckin' point?
- How much of a problem does that tend to be for the glider when the engine sputters to a stop and the vehicle starts coasting?
- Does anybody really wanna be towing with people too stupid to have enough gas in the tank to complete a tow?
...toast. Glider's fine. So not my problem and who gives a fuck.
Platform Launching (PL) Draft suggestions needed
It's not a sleeping dog, asshole. It's a constant hyperactive lethal threat.Bill Cummings - 2014/06/05 19:44:19 UTC
The weak-link sleeping dog...
Yeah, that "whipping a dead horse" line is a perennial favorite with the shitheads on the majority/established sides of indefensible positions....has been hashed out on other forums akin to whipping a dead horse.
Oh. SOME moderators have EVEN locked down threads about weak links rather than getting there balls ripped off and handed to them whenever sanity starts rearing its ugly head.Some moderators have even lock down threads about weak-links rather than go stark raving mad.
- Moderators are - by definition - SCUM. They're insidious enemies of the First Amendment freedoms that all those guys who got slaughtered on Omaha Beach were supposed to have been giving their lives for and absolute murder on minority positions.
- Yeah. I've been permanently banned from seven separate hang gliding forums (counting CHGA from which I got a permanent three month suspension near the end of 2008) and one (the) paragliding forum - not to mention permanent banning from hang gliding itself - for winning battles against you goddam pigfuckers on this issue. Whenever you go into Bible Belt country saying Creationists are totally full of shit you're not gonna make a lot of friends.
There is no argument over what they're for.Forget the endless argument over what weak-links are for.
Anything beyond or other than that is just pigfuckers pulling opinions outta their asses.Tost Flugzeuggerätebau
Weak links protect your aircraft against overloading.
Yes. And WHEN they break - either because they're dangerously and usually illegally light or because a tow has been allowed to get dangerously out of control - the aftermath is almost always some degree of ugly.Simplify it down to what they do.
Tow--or--break.
BULLSHIT. If it doesn't release it's not a release. It's just an attachment point for a towline or bridle end. Reasons for it not releasing:Forget what releases are for.
Simplify it down to what they do.
Release--or--fail to release.
- It's a bent pin piece of shit that wasn't designed for towing anything.
- The actuator is located within easy reach on an aircraft which requires two hands to fly.
- All of the above.
And it's a real safe bet that you've never once in your entire flying career flown with an ACTUAL release on your glider so you should probably shut the fuck up on that issue.
I dunno, Bill. If you lose your engines just as you lift off from the runway at BWI what's your Plan B? Head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye?First this: Tow--or--break.
If a weak-link breaks and it puts you at risk due to loss of towing tension what was your plan B, for when the towline failed?
How 'bout right after launch at Dry Canyon with a hundred and fifty feet of air under you and your sidewire fails?
Now cite an incident in which engines were lost on takeoff, a sidewire blew at 150 feet, or a towline blew in which the issue couldn't be traced back to an incompetent and/or negligent douchebag.
I don't fly with a release that can break apart. And little makes me happier than the benefit to the gene pool you get when somebody gets killed because his release broke apart.For when the release broke apart?
Like when the plastic gas tank went through Jon Leak's Cosmos prop and ended my first aerotow clinic after one flight?For when something went through the aero-tugs prop and it disintegrated?
- Maybe it's a good idea to design aircraft such that stuff doesn't come loose and go through the prop.
- Trike was outta commission but there was never the least problem with the glider. So what's your fuckin' point?
What's the tow vehicle? A tug, truck, snowmobile, boat?For when the tow vehicle ran out of gas?
- How much of a problem does that tend to be for the glider when the engine sputters to a stop and the vehicle starts coasting?
- Does anybody really wanna be towing with people too stupid to have enough gas in the tank to complete a tow?
Fuck you, Bill.For when an internal muffler baffle broke off inside and plugged the aero-tows muffler exhaust, killing the motor? (Hopefully nothing else.)
Prop's still spinning, right? Doesn't sound all that traumatic to me - or am I missing something?For when the tug's throttle cable broke?
Tug's...For when the oil injector failed and the motor seized?
...toast. Glider's fine. So not my problem and who gives a fuck.
No, keep going with this bullshit. You haven't said anything about rattlesnakes or Al Qaeda terrorists yet.For when the tug pilot bumped the choke lever and flooded the motor? For when a deer or kid ran out in front of the platform truck? For when dirt got into the fuel and killed the motor? For when the spark plug fouled?
HAD ENOUGH?